PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the ...

Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone - a 600-mile fault line extending ...

The Cascadia subduction zone stretches from northern California ... faults most likely to cause a huge earthquake are the Hayward fault, the Calaveras fault, and the infamous San Andreas fault ...

The Cascadia subduction zone fault could kill thousands and render the greater Pacific Northwest unrecognizable during its next big slip. Researchers think the region is due for a devastating 8.0 ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major quake in 1700. The fault goes an average of 535 years between major quakes, according to the ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath ... The intersection of the deformation front with the SW-trending Nootka transform fault, which is characterized by ...

With Washington’s location along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and several active fault lines in the state, more than 1,000 earthquakes occur in the state each year, according to the Washington ...

They are held by friction in a locked zone, along the upper portion of ... along the hundreds of kilometres that make up the Cascadia fault line. After a great earthquake, the two plates lock ...